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Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!
A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheroo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes ’ands with you.
Or blow me a kiss, and that’s lucky too.
Now as the ladder of life has been strung,
You may think a sweep’s on the bottommost rung.
Though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke,
In this ’ole wide world there’s no ’appier bloke.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!
A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheroo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes ’ands with you.
Or blow me a kiss, and that’s lucky too.
I choose me bristles with pride, yes I do:
A broom for the shaft and a brush for the flue.
Though I’m covered with soot from me ’ead to me toes,
A sweep knows ’e’s welcome wherever he goes.
Up where the smoke is all billowed and curled,
’Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world.
When there’s hardly no day, nor hardly no night,
There’s thing half in shadow and halfway in light,
On the rooftops of London, coo, what a sight!
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cheree!
When you’re with a sweep you’re in glad company.
Nowhere is there a more happier crew,
Than them what sings chim chim cheree, chim cheroo!
Chim chiminey, chim chim cheree chim cheroo!